Win tickets to see Jitney at the Oldham Coliseum

Photo: Sharron Wallace

Tony Marshall and Leemore Marrett Jr in Jitney

Following its critically acclaimed premiere at Leeds Playhouse in 2021, Tinuke Craig’s searing production of August Wilson’s Jitney - a Headlong, Leeds Playhouse and Old Vic co-production, comes to Oldham Coliseum Theatre this month.

A ground-breaking modern classic from one of America’s greatest and most ambitious writers, Jitney explores the fragile bond between eight men as they live, love and work in a racially segregated, post-Vietnam America. Jim Becker and his unlicensed drivers take the people of Pittsburgh Hill District where regular taxi cabs won’t venture – healing old wounds and tearing new ones as they pass the time in a condemned taxi rank between pick-ups.

Director Tinuke Craig said: “‘Ultimately, it’s a love story about community and the strengths a community can have – particularly if it’s marginalised; how you are stronger together and how you can strive to change your circumstances with help from other people.

“[Writer] August Wilson, is one of the great American dramatists, up there with Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams. He has a theatre named after him on Broadway and all his plays won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, so he’s a huge deal.”

The cast includes Geoff Aymer as Doub, Nnabiko Ejimofor as Shealy, Leanne Henlon as Rena, Solomon Israel as Youngblood, Wil Johnson as Becker, Dayo Koleosho as Philmore, Leemore Marrett Jr. as Booster, Tony Marshall as Fielding and Sule Rimi as Turbo. Lindon Alexander, Lincoln Conway, Blair Gyabaah and Yolanda Ovide are the understudies.

The production runs Wednesday 13 July – Saturday 16 July

We’ve a pair of tickets to any performance of Jitney at the Coliseum, simply answer this question:
Jitney is set in Pittsburgh, but in which state is that city?

a) Pennsylvania
b) Texas
c) Florida

Email your answer, along with your name, email address and contact number to win@oldham-chronicle.co.uk

If you prefer, you can send your details by post to:
Oldham Evening Chronicle
Coliseum Competition
Sarah Moor Studios
Oldham OL1 3EN

A winner will be chosen at random on 13 July at midday, and we will be in touch.  Should we be unable to contact the first entrant within 48 hours, the prize will be forfeited, and we will choose another winner at random.

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